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== 1832 ==
== 1832 ==
Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont visit the United States to study the penitentiary system.
== 1845 ==
== 1845 ==
== 1848 ==
== 1848 ==

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Timeline for Civil Society

A sequence of significant events in the evolution of the idea of civil society.

1767

Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society is published in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1822

George W.F. Hegel published Elements of the Philosophy of Right, containing his discussion of civil society, in German.

1832

Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont visit the United States to study the penitentiary system.

1845

1848

1862

The first English-language edition of Democracy in America is published in Cambridge MA by Sever and Francis.

2001

Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone: is published in the U.S.